The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-17

shouts of the multitude At the college
gate the company turned into an avenue of
lovely girls, each provided with flowers,
which they strewed in the path of the cadets.
The ovation was concluded with an eloquent
address to the company from Gen. Hill in
the course of which be paid a glowing trib-
utet to the company, its commander and
itsslovely sponsor and maids of honor. He
then presented the company, in the name of
the citizens beautiful white banner, on
which was inscribed the word Victory"
AT night the company was rendered grand
reception in the college parlors. Capt K.
g. Mathison, commandant of the cadets is
a native of Cheraw, s. c., and was educated
at the South Carolina Military Academy in
Charleston. He was the youngest COM
mander at the drill, and had as competitors
two West Point graduates.
FLORIDA
The Polk County Temperance Convention
will be held at Lakeland on the afternoon
and evening Of May 20,
The will of the late ex~Justice Westcott
makes the West Florida Seminary residuary
legatee to the amount of about $4,000.
The Caloosahatchie river is evidently
somewhat crooked; the surveyors have
found 900 more bends in it than are down on
the maps,
Between 800 and 400 crates of vegetables
are now being shipped from Micanopy daily.
The prices remain about the same as they
have been for several weeks.
Mr.. G. G. Player, of Medulla, reports the
vegetable business as looking up in that To-
cality. The recent fine rains have put new
life into everything, and the future looks
promising.
There is a rumor current in Palatka that
Maj o. w. Bromwell, who recently re-
Il l1ta a9,d
passenger agent of the Florida Southern
railway, is making arrangements to eS-
tablish private bank in Palatka,
The town of Palatka Heights is preparing
TO take vote on the question of erecting
public school building, and the Council will
consider an ordinance al its next meeting
providing for an election for that purpose.
1t is proposed to raise 90, 900 in this manner
and that sum will be supplemented by pri-
vate subscriptions.
Belle Boyd" the young lady who made
herself famous during the war as spy for
the Confederate forces, passed through
Lakeland Monday on her way to Tampa.
Old veterans will recall her measurable SER
vice to the South. She is running an orange
grove in the State, and is in comfortable
circumstances, nothing more.
Mr.. j. w. Odum, of Barberville, has
growing on his place honey peach tree
two years old, from the seed, which meas
ures eight and one-half inches around the
body, is twelve feet high and spreads twelve
feet nine inches across the top. he has also
q mulberry tree of the same age which
measures twelve inches around the body
and is fifteen feet high and twenty feet
across the top.
Polk countys wealthiest taxpayer lives
in Midland, near Fort Meade. Although
he has annual money transactions of thous-
ands of dollars, all of this business is done on
a cash basis, he having learned no other
system. In 1S47 he went to Florida down
from Georgia with wife, a feather bed and
a COW, and went into the cattle business.
Now he could draw his check for 100000,
and scarcely knows how many cattle bears
his brand.
A rather peculiar freak of lightning oc-
CURED during the thunder storm last Tues
day evening at Kissimmee. A bolt struck the
mast head Of Mr.. F. II. SEEDLINGS sail boat
at the Tropical wharf, which shattered it,
then skipped to the deck, where it left a
mark as of burned powder, and then made
leap to the bottom of the boat, making
quite large hole through it, splitting one
of the wales and sinking the boat.
Mr. f. p. Smith, of Jasper, has recently
rescued two little colored children-a boy
and a girl-from the clutches of an old
colored woman to whom they had been
in the most inhuman manner. SO severe
were the poundings, that the little ones
carry numerous white scars. The boy, q
bright pickanihny, has determined never to
forsake Mr.. Smith, and will hardly let that
gentleman get out of his sight The girl
was turned over to one of Mr.. Smiths halt
troopers
r. B. Ross met with quite a painful acct
dent at Oliver Park, at Gainesville, Satur-
10 was in a fT~ap Vat hay NO
magnolia blooms when limb suddenly
broke, letting him fall distance of ever
| twenty feet. As he fell on the end of a log
| that was under the tree he received a very
| painful, perhaps dangerous wound in his
| stomach, the skin of which was fearfully
| torn. He was hurriedly carried to town
when Dr. NJ. L. Moore rendered him medi
| cal aid.
| The young ladies Of Longwood and vicin
| ity met at the house of Mrs. L. F. Burckle
| Thursday, May 5. and organized a Young
| Woman's Christian Temperance Union with
| the following officers: President, NJ L.
| Partridge; Vice Presidents, Frances Clouser
| Mrs. l.. ?. Burckle, Mary Silcox; Secretary
| Florence Griffin; Corresponding Secretary
| Miss Griffin Treasurer, Miss Anna Free
| man: Superintendent of Literature, Miss
| Macarthur; Superintendent of Flower Mis-
| sion, Miss Lille Cove Much interest was
manifested and good results are sure to fnl
| low
The Kissimmee Leader says Sunday
| evening last about 6 o'clock most beautiful
meteor was seen. 1t appeared little east
of north, and Travelled eastward. 1t was
| very large and brilliant. It broke in two
| parts when about two-thirds of its course
| was completed, one following the other
| while for 4 considerable distance a stream
4 OF sparks few out. II had faint tinge ot
| pink in the head, with blue on the edge Of
| the foremost ball of fire. 1t resembled
somewhat the appearance of large rocket
| 1t was evidently at a great distance, as nj
report was heard. 1t was grand sight tc
| those who saw it,
The Gainesville Advocate says that or
Saturday last, while o. j. Post was being
tried in the Circuit Court for larceny, d
good-looking, neatly -dressed, curly headed
woman with a piercing black eye and a
wifely look of sorrow. marched into court
and took her seat beside the prisoner She
carried in her arms a sweet little cooling
baby boy, evidently about years old. The
case progressed uninterruptedly and law
yers made tseir pleas first for the State,
afterwards for the defense During all the
time the devoted wife sat erect by hei
husbande side, occasionally brushing teal
| as big rs a glass of lemonade from hel
cheek Tie boy baby, in the meantime was
not asleep, but true to Its Innocent nature
was busy all the time III cooing and playing
with dad who sat by with a face as long
| as a fence picket But when the LAWYERS